Verschoor Fastest in Round 3 Free Practice

The first day of the 2016 SMP F4 NEZ Round 3 started today with very cloudy weather, leaving open the question of the tyres to be used in today’s Free Practice.

As the session started, the eighteen drivers launched their machines onto the track on slick tyres and headed out for the forty-minute session.

The gap was amazingly small with all the drivers covered by a single second, showing how just equal the cars are in this one make championship. The first practice was topped by Tuomas Tujula, the Round 2 winner lapping the Dutch track in 1:40.726, followed by Richard Verschoor (1:40.730) a mere 0.004 seconds slower. Third fastest was Jarno Opmeer, the current championship leader, in a time of 1:40.944.

The second practice started with Vladimir Tziortzis leading the way through until a red flag stoppage when Nikita Volegov went off track. When the action resumed, it was Red Bull Junior Driver Verschoor who topped the classification, followed by Opmeer, Tujula, Xavi Lloveras and Alex Vartanyan.

”We learned a lot from our mistakes two weeks ago. I hope I will manage to have the same results in qualification and not make any mistakes during the race,” commented Verschoor.

”The practices were better than during the previous race weekend. On the last round, I had problems with my pace, but now we have found it for this weekend. Of course I hope I can get to the podium like we did in Sochi,” reported Roope Markkanen.

The race weekend continues tomorrow with the first qualifying session kicking off at 10:00.

 

Free Practice 1, Results

1^st – Tuomas Tujala, 1:40.726

2^nd – Richard Verschoor, 1:40.730

3^rd – Jarno Opmeer, 1:40.944

4^th – Alexander Vartanyan, 1:41.026

5^th – Rasmus Markkanen, 1:41.071

6^th – Roope Markkanen, 1:41.081

7^th – Zakhar Slutskii, 1:41.154

8^th – Xavier Lloveras, 1:41.232

9^th – Artem Slutskii, 1:41.276

10^th – Aleksander Maslennikov, 1:41.423

11^th – Juho Valtanen, 1:41.515

12^th – Danny Kroes, 1:41.518

13^th – Artem Petrov, 1:41.530

14^th – Nikita Volegov, 1:41.683

15^th – Gleb Zotov, 1:41.794

16^th – Tuomas Haapalainen, 1:41.836

17^th – Vladimir Tziortzis, 1:41.927

18^th – Roman Levedev, 1:42.516

 

Free Practice 2, Results

1^st – Richard Verschoor, 1:39.462

2^nd – Jarno Opmeer, 1:39.51

3^rd – Tuomas Tujala, 1:39.653

4^th – Xavier Lloveras, 1:39.738

5^th – Alexander Vartanyan, 1:39.935

6^th – Roope Markkanen, 1:39.943

7^th – Juho Valtanen, 1:39.970

8^th – Rasmus Markkanen, 1:39.990

9^th – Danny Kroes, 1:40.072

10^th – Artem Petrov, 1:40.211

11^th – Vladimir Tziortzis, 1:40.270

12^th – Artem Slutskii, 1:40.625

13^th – Gleb Zotov, 1:40.777

14^th – Zakhar Slutskii, 1:41.068

15^th – Tuomas Haapalainen, 1:41.074

16^th – Roman Levedev, 1:41.284

17^th – Aleksander Maslennikov, 1:41.562

18^th – Nikita Volegov, 1:41.617